Plant Breeding: Classical to Modern

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Priyadarshan, P.M (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Generalia
  • 1. Introduction plant breeding
  • 2. Objectives,activities and centres of origin
  • 3. Germplasm conservation
  • Part II: Development aspects
  • 4. Modes of reproduction and apomixis
  • 5. Self-incompatibility
  • 6. Male sterility-- 7. Basic statistics
  • Part III: Methods of breeding
  • 8. Selection
  • 9. Hybridization
  • 10. Backcross breeding
  • 11. Breeding self-pollinated crops 12. Breeding cross-pollinated crops
  • 13. Recombinant imbred lines
  • 14. Quantitative genetics
  • Part IV: Specialized breeding
  • 15. Hetorisis
  • 16. Induced mutations and polyploidy breeding
  • 17. Distant hybridization
  • 18. Host plant resistant breeding
  • 19. Breeding for abiotic stress adaptation
  • 20. Genotype-by-environment interactions
  • Part V: Breeding for new millenium
  • 21. Tissue culture
  • 22. Genetic engineering
  • 23. Molecular breeding
  • 24. Genomics
  • 25. Maintenance breeding and variety release